As more and more law firms announce that they are pushing back their fall start dates for the Class of ’08, an entire crop of recent grads is wondering how to fill the time between the bar exam and that first fat big law paycheck (aside of the obligatory bar trip to Hungary, Machu Picchu, [...]
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SquibSquab Apologizes to its Devoted Readers
Barely a week old and already SquibSquab has to break its promise to you, dear reader, in providing the first installment of Lawve Letters. Yesterday we introduced this new feature and got a few of you quite excited at the mere reference to Julian Sands. Today we recall that we need to read through Circulars [...]
Lawve Letters
Here at SquibSquab we have been working through our own version of a twelve-step recovery program for, oh, about the last twenty-three years or so. Recovering from what, you ask? The traditional catalogue of chemical dependencies–alcohol, pot, and something white in either powder or pill form that makes you scrub your tub at 3:00 a.m.? [...]
New Yorker Caption Contest
Here at SquibSquab.com we love entering the New Yorker caption contest, even though we are convinced that the editor of the contest spends about 15 minutes every Sunday evening drawing the “final three” captions out of a hat. So we are delighted to provide the readers of SquibSquab with a forum to share their far [...]
Obama TOO Fit to be President?
Seems like the media can’t get enough of Barack Obama and his gym routine. Look–he went three times in 24 hours! Look–he switched from a 50 lb tricep extension to a 40 lb! But the best one has got to be John McCain’s rather pathetic ad (and we like John McCain) that makes it look like Obama [...]
Just “Being Lazy” Works Better Than Asking for Alternate Track, Report Shows
In a surprising new report from the American Surveyors of Big Law (ASBL), experimental alternate track policies do not seem to work as well as “just being lazy” for many associates. “Alternate Track”—also referred to as “Mommy Track” or a “Dead End” or sometimes just, “Not Fully Committed to the Practice of Law,” have been [...]
Big Law Associate Skates by on 50 Hours a Week
Jennifer Saskatoon, a third year associate at High & Gungous, thought she had it all figured out. Her plan was to work as little as possible for her first couple of years as a practicing attorney, assuming that it takes at least three or four years before the pressure to bill hours really gets serious. [...]